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Family: Scout. Country: USA. Status: Hardware. Department of Defence Designation: X-17.
Satellite launch vehicle based on X-17.
SpecificationsLaunches: 3. Failures: 1. Success Rate: 66.67% pct. First Launch Date: 21 September 1962. Last Launch Date: 10 April 1964. LEO Payload: 99 kg. to: 413 km Orbit.
RAM-B Chronology
1962 Sep 21 - Launch Site: Wallops Island . FAILURE: Failure.
- RAM-B1 Spacecraft: RAM-B.
Suborbital.
1963 Jun 28 - Launch Site: Wallops Island .
- RAM-B2 Spacecraft: RAM-B.
Suborbital.
1964 Apr 10 - Launch Site: Wallops Island .
- RAM-B3 Spacecraft: RAM-B.
Suborbital.
Bibliography:- 17 - Emme, Eugene M, Aeronautics and Astronautics: An American Chronology of Science and Technology in the Exploration of Space 1915-1960, NASA, 1961. HTML when accessed: http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/timeline.html
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